Specialized Equipment
The rule also applies to the following more specialized types of equipment when used in construction:
- floating cranes;
- cranes on barges;
Crane on a Barge
- locomotive cranes;
- multi-purpose machines when configured to hoist, lower (by means of a winch or hook), and horizontally move a suspended load;
- industrial cranes (such as carry-deck cranes);
- dedicated pile drivers;
- service/mechanic trucks with a hoisting device;
- monorail mounted cranes;
- pedestal cranes;
- portal cranes;
- overhead and gantry cranes (except that such cranes that are permanently installed in a facility are subject to OSHA's general industry standard, 29 CFR 1910.179, even when used for construction work);
- straddle cranes;
- sideboom cranes; and
- digger derricks (except when used for auguring holes for poles carrying electric and telecommunication lines, placing and removing the poles, and for handling associated materials to be installed on or removed from the poles).
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1-5. The OSHA rules consider a crane on a floating barge as _____.
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